Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #58
May 9, 2020
What aren’t we being told?
Well, the unemployment rate hit 14.9 percent today, according to the federal government. The greatest figure of all time was during the depression when it was about 25 percent. The unemployment rate where I live is not 14.9 percent. It’s like fifty percent. City workers in all areas, now cut back, construction workers all over the place and a few odd employers like liquor stores and part-time carry out restaurant stuff is about it, or those employed. The monumental rest of all business is shut down other than the big box stores and groceries which don’t seem to be getting that much business anymore if you stop by. Oh, and those places are not staffed any more than skeletally these days.
So, what gives with the numbers, as states now continue to discuss extending the shut down on through June or even the summer? Some states have opened up. Five states, all republican, joining the seven states that never closed, all republican, are opening conditionally this weekend. That makes twelve. So here we are, asea in a vast ocean where the water is slowly running out of some unseen and mysterious hole at its bottom. How long can the seventy or so percent survive without money ore dependent upon those people who earned it? Unemployment, real joblessness, is at about fifty percent and I’m being generous if you want boots on the ground truth. Many of those jobs lost will never return.
The virus didn’t and won’t kill us, in spite of the daily huge obituaries offered up in every newspaper across the land every day or week. No, the systemic, organized, and deliberate takedown of the American economy isn’t going to kill us either. It will kill a lot of us but that isn’t the intent. For some reason, the intent is to make the country much less competitive and incapable of throwing off any kind of yoke of oppression, favoritism, and revelations of the awful lying of our leaders; democratic, republican, independent alike.
Start paying attention and start getting really pissed off at those you observe who do really, really well at this goes on. Those are the people who did this to us and our formerly wonderful economy.
On a happy note, spend time reading Book one of my first Sci-fi series.
Although there are some parallels to situations today?
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I could not agree more! We have been led down a path by over-reaction and false numbers by those who seek to manipulate and control us for some reason. Closing all of the small businesses while allowing big box stores is ridiculous. The arbitrary nature of the “rules” reeks pf political favoritism and yet more corruption. Surprise that ALL the draconian measures and continued, extended even lockdowns are in Democrat controlled states and cities? This shall not stand.
What are we not being told? The White House’s withholding the CDC recommendations on protocols for re-starting the economy and opening the country and the issuing its own guidance tells it all. The White House guidance will kill a disproportionate number of older, brown, black, black and indian people. The COVID 19 out break is an opportunity to reduce Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, and other social safety net costs.
Genocide. That is what we are not being told.
Some have theorized that to be true.
Not only is history being removed so are the ones who know the “history”
Thanks for your input, sam
“For some reason, the intent is to make the country much less competitive and incapable of throwing off any kind of yoke of oppression, favoritism, and revelations of the awful lying of our leaders; democratic, republican, independent alike.
Start paying attention and start getting really pissed off at those you observe who do really, really well at this goes on. Those are the people who did this to us and our formerly wonderful economy.” — JS
That’s how I see it [paragraph one] and think it’s revolution or anarchy or socialism 101 at work in a lot of ways. That’s my simplistic response.
The second paragraph: Do you think the political establishment and/or people such as AOC and Bernie Sanders have the same influences on this era?
You always pose good questions, Mike.
In the second paragraph although not stated who is responsible for the actions, those states that
represent the ones still on lockdown would seem to be directed to creating a NEEDY Social system.
I think the Chinese quickly figured this out and decided to level the playing field in their favor. Check the latest imports and exports from there. They are smarter than we are. Our experts are running along behind the wagon counting the horse turds,the Chinese are in the drivers seat.
Carroll…the Chinese have no nuclear weapons that work, they have little in the way of a real Navy,
they have an overpopulated pastoral land and culture that has little in the way of real medicine or education.
The Chinese did not custom make a virus. Neither they nor anybody else is anywhere close to dealing with virus results on the creative level.
A virus is not alive, like bacteria. It’s about the size, each bit of it, like an atom.
Impossibly difficult to deal with, as you can observe with the lack of effective vaccines down through the years.
There is no vaccine yet for Herpes, the common cold, and influenza shots are notorious for being ineffective, with the virus also changing very rapidly.
No, it’s not the Chinese. It’s Switzerland. The billionaires who want to be trillionaires meet there every year at Davos.
So many, if not all of them, are simply what the rest of us consider ‘evil to the core,’ when it comes to conducting themselves socially or in any empathic manner.
Semper fi,
Jim